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Book SynopsisFourteen years after it was first published, the 2021 edition of The Red Goddess has been freshly typeset and is introduced with a preface by Alkistis Dimech. The Red Goddess is an ecstatic journey through the unheard history of Babalon, the goddess of Revelation, an explicit and challenging vision of a very modern goddess coming into power. From the Revelation of St John the Divine, back through the Ishtar Gate and forward into a living modern magical current. This is more than a history, it is a passionate account of living magic and the transcendent power of Love. The epic sweep of the text takes us from Babylon to Jerusalem to Rome, and onwards to Apocalypse. It confronts us with the language and symbols of our own culture and the denied demonic feminine. It looks at the angelic work of John Dee and places it in a European eschatology. It delivers a devastating exegesis on the excesses of Aleister Crowley, and unlocks the secrets of 'Waratah Blossoms.' It explains the immolation of the Californian antichrist-superstar Jack Parsons and his relationship with Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. There is also a full supporting cast of Solomon, Simon Magus, St John the Divine, Earl Bothwell, the Templars, Mary, the Magdalene and countless others. This is the missing history of the love goddess in the West. Thirteen essays conclude the book on subjects including: roses, mirror magick, bdsm, aphrodisiac drugs, the information age, love and lust, and the meaning of apocalypse. The Red Goddess is for anyone with blood in their veins, regardless of tradition, background or experience.Table of ContentsEditor's Preface: The Work of the Hierodule Book I A History of Mystery Revelations? Weeping We Remembered Zion How Many Miles to Babylon? Time Gentlemen Please Egyptian Eyes All Goddesses Are Not One Goddess Book II Words Made Flesh Mary Mary Quite Contrary Mary Inviolate Simon Says The Bed of Him That Is Fallen Rhymes With Holy Jumping Jack Flash Where Is Love? Book III Goddess of Love, Goddess of Lust Blood Red Roses Babalon & Beauty Reflections on Mirrors Digital Skin The Oldest Profession Sexual Chemistry: Intoxicated with Love Ravish Me With Kisses Bridles, Whips, Needles and Knives Queen of the Rose Gate, Queen of the Throat of Night Divine Retribution The World Made Flesh The Unfurling of the Apocalyptic Rose

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Book SynopsisCollectanea Hermetica Volume I: Hermetic Arcanum. This book was part of the curriculum studied by members of the original Order of the Golden Dawn. This essay presents the secret work of the Hermetic philosophy wherein the secrets of nature and art concerning the matter of the philosophers'' stone and the manner of working are explained in an authentic and orderly manner. The volumes of Westcott''s Collectanea Hermetica appeared over three years from 1893 to 1896 when the Golden Dawn was at its peak. In every volume the intellectual integrity of the authors is evident, as is an eagerness to bring academic respectability to subjects derided by their contemporaries. This edition was Edited Darcy Kuntz. General Preface by R.A. Gilbert; Preface to the Series by W. Wynn Westcott; Preface to the Hermetic Arcanum by Sapere Aude; Introduction by Robert Allen Bartlett; To the Students by Penes Nos Unda Tagi; The Hermetic Arcanum; Time of the Stone; Notes, Appendixes, Advertisements and Bibliography. Hardbound. 6x9. xxvi, 70 pp.This is the first corrected edition since Westcott's edition which was originally published in 1893. This edition has been corrected against the original editions: Enchiridion Physicæ Restitutæ (1623); Enchiridion Physicæ Restitutæ (1642); Arcanum or the Grand Secret of Hermetic Philosophy. Third amended edition, (1650); Westcott''s edition (1893). It also contains two advertisements from 1893 and a rare illustration of the interior of an Athanor reprinted from Theatrum Chemicum, (1659).

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Book SynopsisMastering Enochian Magick Vol. III: Mastering the Thirty AiresThe final piece of the Enochian puzzle was revealed to John Dee and Edward Kelley following the structure and attributions of the Great Table. The Thirty Aires, represented as a series of concentric spheres extending outward from the Earth and into the Heavens, have inspired modern magicians to perform countless scrying experiments that have produced records of varying quality. But the original design of the Thirty Aires in fact encodes a complex and effective system of political and geographical magick. Dee hoped to use this new magical technology in the service of his Queen and country, shaping political events all over the world. Author Scott Michael Stenwick now does for the Thirty Aires what he did for the Great Table and Mystical Heptarchy, presenting the material in a context that is true to Dee and Kelley''s original schema along with a ritual template that includes both modern and traditional grimoire techniques. The entities of the Thirty Aires include powers spanning the terrestrial realms of the Earth and the zodiacal forces of the Heavens. These powers provide many opportunities for both effective practical work and transformative mystical operations.Unlock the secrets of the Thirty Aires and put them to work transforming your life.

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